Gaming on my Triton 500 over Thunderbolt 3

Hello guys,

I have a short question:

I want to hide all my cables and I don't want my Triton 500 (RTX 2060 edition) looking like an octopus with all the cables connected to it.
So I want to buy a Thunderbolt 3 dock in order to have it somewhere in the back and only connect that cable to my laptop (and the power plug, because 100W is not enough to also charge it).

I have one Dell FullHD monitor and one 4K Samsung TV (which will also be kept in FullHD for gaming sessions).
So far so good! But, the question is, will I be able to game on my monitor or TV, is Thunderbolt 3 outputting from my RTX2060 or my Intel iGPU ?
I'm really confused at this point, and I've read posts that said yes I can, without performance loss, yes I can with performance loss or just plain NO.

Cheers!

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ashuiashui

I have been watching tech videos from a Youtuber called Jarrod'sTech recently and he made some videos about using e-gpu, not with Triton 500 though, but the principles should remain the same:

1. If you connect the monitor directly to the external graphic cards, you would not suffer from performance loss. (But compared to directly PCIE connection like in the desktop machine, it is still worse due to the thunderbolt connection.)

2. If you don't connect the external GPU to a monitor, I assume that the signal will be output back to the laptop display, causing performance loss.

3. If you don't connect the external GPU to a monitor, but you connect external monitor using built-in hdmi or DP port on the laptop, that I have never seen any one doing such thing, and I believe that will cause even greater performance impact than the previous situation if it works.

You can watch this youtube video and find out the answer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcpPpOY4CY, a great tech youtuber.

xapim

retroceptor the thunderbolt port should use the DGPU same as the hdmi port the IGPU its unly used by the laptop display itself any outside video output would be through the DGPU

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